Warumungu Sign Language

Warumungu Sign Language
Warramunga Sign Language
Region North Central Desert, Australia
Native speakers
None
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None

Warumungu Sign Language is a sign language used by the Warumungu, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia. Along with Warlpiri Sign Language, it is (or perhaps was) one of the most elaborate of all Australian Aboriginal sign languages.[1]

References

  1. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60



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